Predrag Milošević (Serbian Cyrillic: Предраг Милошевић; February 4, 1904 in Knjaževac – January 4, 1988 in Belgrade) was a composer, conductor, pianist, pedagogue, and music writer.
As one of those musicians from Serbia who completed their university education in Prague, upon his return, Milošević significantly contributed to the foundation of music professionalism in his country.
Predrag Milošević is recipient of the Yugoslav Order of Labour with the Red Flag, and a music school in his birth town, Knjaževac is named after him.
The slow movement that opens with the appearance of a muted trumpet followed by a melody developed and later imitated over tremolos and trills, resembles a nocturne.
In the String quartet (1928), Milošević enriched his expression by the more pronounced use of polytonal and atonal chords, but nonetheless in the aspects of form and polyphonic work remained grounded within modernist canonical criteria.
Their order is defined by their individual textural complexity and by shifting the main theme in higher registers, from the first violin downward, ending the movement in the cello part.
The historicist impetus, this time directed at J. S. Bach as a symbol of a Western European composition canon, is yet again underscored in this work by Predrag Milošević.